Landscape Architecture Program Accreditation

Penn State has a professionally accredited undergraduate degree (B.L.A.) and a professionally accredited graduate degree (M.L.A.). Both provide students the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to pursue professional practice and licensure in landscape architecture.

Our B.L.A. undergraduate curriculum and our M.L.A. graduate curriculum both are accredited by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB). The mission of LAAB is to evaluate, advocate for, and advance the quality of education in landscape architectural programs. LAAB establishes standards that ensure that current and future practitioners understand, obtain and maintain the knowledge, skills and abilities required to practice landscape architecture in the future.

As with other professionally accredited landscape architecture programs, Penn State’s B.L.A. and M.L.A. undergo accreditation review every six years. The B.L.A. was most recently reviewed in spring 2017, and obtained glowing praise from the accreditation team. Our M.L.A. program was initially accredited by LAAB in 2013, and the next accreditation visit is scheduled for spring 2019.

Program Rankings

Design Intelligence 2018–19 Design Program Rankings
Penn State B.L.A. is:
#3 nationwide
#1 in the East

Top 10 nationwide since 2006–07
Seven of those years in top 3
11 of those years in top 10

Contact Information

H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture The Pennsylvania State University 121 Stuckeman Family Building University Park, PA 16802 814-865-6112 | 814-863-8137 (fax)jlf47@psu.edu